Autumn Carrot Cake

Heyo!

Last week I made an absolutely "delish" carrot cake and wanted to share the recipe with you. It requires quite a few ingredients, but I promise, it's super simple to make!

Ingredients:

- 200g Self Raising Flour

- 175g Light Brown Sugar

- 250g Carrots

- 150g Raisins (or 80g if you're less fond of raisins like myself)

- Pinch of Salt

- 2tsp Ground Mixed Spice

- 3 Eggs

-150ml Sunflower Oil

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

- 200g Cream Cheese         

-4tbsp Icing Sugar           

- Zest of 1 Lemon            

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4 and line a loaf tin with greaseproof paper.

2. Put the flour, salt, sugar, spice and raisins in a large bowl and mix together.

3. Grate the carrots, add to the large bowl and mix everything together again.

4. In a small bowl, add the eggs to the oil and whisk them lightly together. Then pour into the large bowl with the dry mix and mix it all together with an electric whisk (or a wooden spoon, that will do as well).

5. Put the mix into the loaf tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour. You'll know it's ready by putting a skewer or a knife into the centre and it comes out clean.

6. Allow the loaf to cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes.

7. Make the frosting: Zest the lemon (but only zest the top yellow layer, not the one under which is white) and add it into a small bowl with the cream cheese.

8. Add the icing sugar into the small bowl that has the lemon and cream cheese and mix the 3 ingredients together. (Add a little more icing sugar into the mix if you think the frosting lacks taste.)

9. Spread the frosting onto the cake and decorate it how you like.

And that's pretty much it! This was truly a lovely recipe and very relevant to the new season. It's so easy peasy and therefore... I do recommend giving it a go!

Sharleen x